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Introduction to Western Civilization explores the major events, ideas, and cultural developments that have shaped the Western world from ancient times to the modern era. The course examines the foundations of Western society, including the contributions of ancient Greece and Rome, the influence of Christianity, the rise of nation-states, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the transformative impact of major revolutions and global exchanges. Through the study of key figures, historical documents, and artistic achievements, students gain an understanding of the political, social, philosophical, and cultural forces that continue to influence Western societies today.
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Chapter 1: The Ancient Near East: the First Civilizations
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Q1) Which of the following provided a basis for the Mesopotamian civilization?
A) Sumerians
B) Egyptians
C) Assyrians
D) Hittites
E) Akkadians
Answer: A
Q2) With the progress of civilization,one could also find
A) increased epidemic diseases.
B) urban centers without adequate sewage systems.
C) more dangerous warfare.
D) slavery.
E) All of these
Answer: E
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Chapter 2: The Hebrews: a New View of God and the Individual
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Q1) Which of the following pairs is incorrect?
A) Amos and Judea
B) Jeremiah and Chaldea
C) Hosea and Israel
D) Isaiah and Jerusalem
E) Jeremiah and Jerusalem
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following statements does NOT accurately portray Hebrew beliefs and attitudes toward the use of images?
A) Humans are created in God's own image.
B) Images are used to represent Gods of other cultures.
C) Only prophets have the power to depict an image of the Supreme Being.
D) Images cannot portray or symbolize ethics.
E) Worshipping images of kings or generals is associated with false Gods.
Answer: C
Q3) Israel
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Chapter 3: The Greeks: From Myth to Reason
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Q1) The Parthenon
Answer: The Parthenon is a temple located on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. It was built in the 5th century BC and is dedicated to the goddess Athena, the patron of Athens. The Parthenon is important because it is considered one of the greatest achievements of ancient Greek architecture and is a symbol of the glory of ancient Athens. It is also significant for its historical and cultural significance, as well as its influence on Western architecture. The Parthenon is a UNESCO World Heritage site and continues to be a major tourist attraction, drawing visitors from around the world to marvel at its beauty and historical significance.
Q2) Herodotus was a historian of the
A) Punic War.
B) Trojan War.
C) Persian War.
D) Peloponnesian War.
E) Macedonian War.
Answer: C
Q3) Aristotle
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Q1) The Roman Empire will actually survive into the 15th century as A) the Byzantine Empire.
B) a Germanic Empire of the Goths.
C) province of the Mongolian Empire
D) the Vatican
E) the western province of the Islamic Empire.
Q2) The authors of your text refer specifically to the great accomplishment of Rome as A) its military conquest of the Mediterranean.
B) distinguishing themselves by their prophets.
C) developing a religion that was appealing to so many peoples.
D) originating the tradition of the Pontifex Maximus.
E) transcending a narrow city state era into a world state of different nations and peoples.
Q3) The creation of a Roman constitution derived from the A) Struggle of Orders
B) Punic Wars
C) Greek traditions
D) Patricians
E) barbarian invasions
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Chapter 5: Early Christianity: a World Religion
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Q1) Diaspora
Q2) Saint Paul
A) had little facility with the Greek language.
B) was parochial rather than cosmopolitan in outlook.
C) was revered as the first hermit.
D) was responsible for the dogmatic break of Christianity with Judaism.
E) preached only to the Jews in the Diaspora.
Q3) Some Romans viewed Christians as disloyal for all of these reasons except A) they were foreigners
B) they refused to engage in sacrifices to Roman Gods
C) their scorning of Gladiatorial contests and public baths
D) they glorified non-violence
E) they attacked state gods
Q4) Sadducees
Q5) Explain ways in which the Jewish community might have been able to accept Jesus as a prophet.
Q6) On the map of Europe,trace the missionary activities of Paul of Tarsus.
Q7) Who was Paul of Tarsus and how did he create Christianity as a universal religion? How did his social position facilitate this transformation?
Q8) Describe the Jewish society into which Jesus was born.
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Chapter 6: The Rise of Europe: Fusion of
Classical,christian,and Germanic
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Q1) What was feudalism and why did it develop in medieval Europe?
Q2) Francis of Assisi
Q3) Carolingian Renaissance
Q4) Henry IV
Q5) Philip Augustus
Q6) Which of the following was NOT a part of the group of invaders that threatened Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries?
A) Vikings.
B) Muslims.
C) Vandals.
D) Magyars
E) Northmen.
Q7) All of the following brought about the revival of trade in the Middle Ages except
A) expanding agricultural production.
B) the end of the Viking attacks.
C) greater political stability.
D) increasing population.
E) unwillingness of serfs to move from their customary homes and fields to new lands.
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Chapter 7: The Flowering and Dissolution of Medieval
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Q1) Gothic architecture
Q2) Who of the following was the chief proponent of the view that faith was beyond reason?
A) Thomas Aquinas
B) Marsiglio of Padua
C) Anselm
D) William of Ockham
E) John Wycliffe
Q3) Joan of Arc led French troops to victory at the battle of
A) Crecy
B) Poitiers
C) Agincourt
D) Orléans
E) Calais
Q4) Peter Abelard faced opposition from which theologian
A) Saint Anselm
B) Thomas Aquinas
C) Bernard of Clairvaux
D) Saint Augustine
E) Saint Dominic
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Chapter 8: Transition to the Modern Age: Renaissance and Reformation
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Q1) In the works of Renaissance artists and thinkers,the world was depicted and explained without reference to
A) higher supernatural realm of meaning and authority.
B) human achievements.
C) confidence in human intelligence.
D) artistic talent.
E) history.
Q2) The new outlook during the Renaissance applied almost exclusively to all the following except
A) princes.
B) courtiers.
C) talented artists.
D) wealthy urban families.
E) peasants.
Q3) Which of the following said "I can work miracles?"
A) Michelangelo
B) Raphael
C) Leonardo da Vinci
D) Giotto
E) Jan Van Eyck
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Chapter 9: Political and Economic Transformation: National
States, overseas Expansion, commercial Revolution
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Q1) Which of the following is the term used for the Jews that converted to Christianity under the threat of death?
A) Conversos
B) Traitors
C) Inquisitors
D) Backsliders
E) Hidalgos
Q2) English trade in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were centered the production of
A) pottery and watches.
B) raw wool and woolens.
C) iron and steel.
D) cotton and silk.
E) sugar and cotton.
Q3) Reconquest
Q4) Henry the Navigator
Q5) the Tudor dynasty
Q6) the Spanish Armada
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Q7) What technological innovations facilitated European exploration?
Q8) Vasco da Gama
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Chapter 10: Intellectual Transformation: the Scientific
Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment
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Q1) Deists would have most agreed with which statement
A) there is no God.
B) religion had nothing teach society
C) the essence of religion is morality
D) God had existed but had died
E) God interceded in the universe to restore energy in the cosmos
Q2) Diderot
Q3) Galileo
Q4) The first successful encyclopedia was published by
A) Denis Diderot.
B) Ephraim Chambers.
C) Chevalier Ramsay.
D) Jean d'Alembert.
E) Voltaire.
Q5) What was the general thinking of the philosophes in regard to gender?
A) Nature had created equality in regard to gender.
B) Female genius adds to her family and household.
C) Most retained a traditional view in the inferiority of women.
D) Women should strive to improve her mind and appearance.
E) Female emancipation was a natural law.
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Chapter 11: The Era of the French Revolution: Affirmation of Liberty and Equality
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Q1) Code Napoleon
Q2) How would the philosophes evaluate the financial and administrative systems of France before the Revolution?
A) Tariffs helped the individual states as well as the state.
B) Provinces were united under national laws.
C) The system was an insult to reason
D) A system of weights and measures helped generate intra state commerce
E) Laws dating back to the feudal system had been deleted or upgraded.
Q3) "crowned Jacobin"
Q4) One may say of the Second Estate that
A) ownership of church lands offered its members considerable profit.
B) the bourgeoisie was its major component.
C) most were intolerant of the ideas of the philosophes.
D) it consisted of about two million persons.
E) it performed the most useful services for the state.
Q5) How was the French Revolution an outgrowth of the Enlightenment?
Q6) On a blank map of Europe,trace in the areas where the Great Fear and the revolt in the Vendée occurred.
Q7) Louis XVIII
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Chapter 12: The Industrial Revolution: the Transformation of Society
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Q1) Milltowns grew up where machines could be powered by
A) solar energy.
B) wind energy.
C) thermal energy.
D) oil.
E) water.
Q2) The Municipal Corporations Act (1835)
Q3) Where did the earliest inventions in the cotton industry appear?
A) Belgium
B) Holland
C) France
D) Britain
E) Italy
Q4) Discuss how the classes of this era changed and affected society?
Q5) Richard Arkwright
Q6) What are the significant societal effects that occurred due to the Industrial Revolution?
Q7) Utopian scientists
Q8) The Factory Act (1847) Page 16
Q9) John Kay
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Chapter 13: Thought and Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century
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Q1) romanticism
Q2) On a blank map of Europe,mark the point of origin of the following ideas: idealism,romanticism,conservatism and liberalism.
Q3) Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Q4) The author of Reflections on the Revolution in France was
A) Karl Marx.
B) John Stuart Mill.
C) Edmund Burke.
D) G.W.F. Hegel.
E) Immanuel Kant.
Q5) nationalism
Q6) Who has been called the dominant figure among French romantics?
A) Flaubert
B) Zola
C) Sand
D) Hugo
E) Bacon
Q7) Victor Hugo
Q8) modern nationalism
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Chapter 14: Surge of Liberalism and Nationalism:
Revolution, counterrevolution, and Unification
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Q1) Young Italy
Q2) The Settlement of 1867 succeeded in
A) pacifying the Czechs.
B) reuniting the Sudeten Germans with Prussia.
C) removing the Hapsburgs from control of Hungary.
D) giving Hungary complete control over its internal affairs.
E) putting Hungary under the complete control of Austria.
Q3) The Carbonari may be best described as
A) secret nationalist societies.
B) a group of middle-class businessmen who sought to encourage literacy.
C) underpaid and oppressed charcoal gatherers in Sicily.
D) the secret police of Hapsburg territories in Italy.
E) the Russian secret police.
Q4) The Revolution of 1848 in France lead to all of the following except A) abdication of King Louis Philippe.
B) the creation of a new republic in France.
C) expansion of voting rights.
D) the election of Louis Napoleon as President.
E) the demonstrated proof of a new radical population in France.
Q5) Junkers
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15: Thought and Culture in the Mid-Nineteenth
Century: Realism, positivism, darwinism, and Social
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Q1) "law of the three stages"
Q2) Describe the feminist movement in the nineteenth century.How did feminists use the same natural rights arguments to support their quest for women's rights?
Q3) Erasmus Darwin
Q4) realism
Q5) According to Marx,the engine of historical change was
A) class struggle.
B) Absolute Spirit.
C) the masses' envy of the wealthy.
D) long-term fluctuations in the price of basic foods.
E) racial conflict.
Q6) Trace the sources of Darwin's major concepts.Why were his ideas considered potentially injurious to the religious establishment?
Q7) Honoré de Balzac's novels directed attention to
A) how social and economic forces might influence people's lives.
B) the need for uplifting art to cheer people.
C) the extravagance of aristocratic society.
D) the decline of the landed aristocracy both in wealth and in morals. Page 21
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Chapter 16: Europe in the Late Nineteenth Century:
Modernization, nationalism, imperialism
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Q1) What is meant by Volkish thought and how did it influence pre World War I Germany?
Q2) Meiji regime
Q3) Russo-Japanese War
Q4) Empress Tzu-hsi
Q5) Which of the following describes Bismarck's influence on liberal and democratic elements in Germany?
A) Protestants were persecuted.
B) Socialists gained seats in the national parliament.
C) Unions were ruled legal.
D) Democracy widened all levels of government.
E) Generally, Germans accepted the restrictions as important to the security of the nation.
Q6) The actions of Russian czars were supported and buttressed by the A) aristocracy.
B) military.
C) new liberal and intellectual class.
D) Orthodox Church.
E) small and elite industrial leaders.
Q7) Treaty of Nanking
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Chapter 17: Modern Consciousness: New Views of Nature, human
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Q1) anomie
Q2) Paul Klee
Q3) Modern artists would agree with each of the following except
A) the audience must be participants in the spirit of artistic creation.
B) there was more to be found in artistic creations than had been discovered by the old masters.
C) one should scatter complacent views of the traditions of western cultural forms.
D) there is no objective reality of space, motion, and time that has the same meaning to all observers.
E) reason must be the primary force in structuring a work of art and its message.
Q4) Principle of Uncertainty
Q5) Which statement is an accurate depiction of modernist culture?
A) Reality can be grasped from a multiplicity of human experiences.
B) Human experience strives toward a single reality.
C) Religion must remain the core of morality or else human desires overwhelm social norms.
D) Artistic endeavors need to follow clear forms and structures.
E) Culture mirrors the perfect ideal of the superego.
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Chapter 18: World War I: the West in Despair
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Q1) Which event triggered the outbreak of World War I?
A) Discovery of anti-Austrian messages of the Black Hand Society
B) A violent border clash of customs agents
C) A belligerent telegram of Kaiser Wilhelm to the Russian tsar
D) The internal crisis of Bosnia
E) The assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Q2) The Provisional Government in Russia was most aligned with A) liberal-democrats.
B) Marxists.
C) monarchists.
D) anarchists.
E) Bolsheviks.
Q3) Tannenberg
Q4) At the battle of Belleau Wood,
A) the American forces checked the German advancement.
B) German troops stopped the first French offensive of the war.
C) British and French troops countered the German invasion into Belgium.
D) German military used poison gas for the first time.
E) French troops collapsed under intense shelling.
Q5) Alsace and Lorraine
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Chapter 19: An Era of Totalitarianism
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Q1) Jose Ortega y Gasset defined his "mass-men" as A) the proletariat.
B) the peasantry.
C) those that cannot or will not think rationally.
D) those who have not received a higher education.
E) the elite.
Q2) Kristallnacht
Q3) Marc Chagall
Q4) First Five-Year Plan
Q5) Karl Jaspers
Q6) Collectivization
Q7) Benito Mussolini
Q8) March on Rome
Q9) The ultimate point of collectivization was to
A) exterminate the peasants.
B) fund rapid industrialization.
C) conscript peasants into the army.
D) bring women into agricultural labor.
E) allow peasants to be attached to their own land.
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Chapter 20: World War II: Western Civilization in the Balance
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Q1) D-Day
Q2) The Holocaust killed approximately_______ of the population of European Jews.
A) two-thirds
B) one-half
C) three-fourths
D) one-fourth
E) three-fifths
Q3) Stalingrad
Q4) Blitzkrieg
Q5) In order to promote social and political disorientation in other lands,the Nazis propagated which of the following worldwide?
A) Anti-Semitism
B) Anti-war
C) Anti-peace
D) Anti-liberalism
E) Anti-Communism
Q6) Battle of Midway
Q8) Winston Churchill Page 28
Q7) What types of resistance movements existed in Europe during World War II? Explain.
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Chapter 21: Europe After World War II: Recovery and Realignment, 1945-1989
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Q1) How was European colonialism affected by World War Two?
A) Fearing the spread of communism, European controls were increased and often oppressive.
B) The World War Two slogan of self-determinism was not applied to African and Asian colonies.
C) European colonial powers, exhausted from World War Two, had little strength or resources left for colonial rule.
D) Independence in Africa led to the continent being the new frontier of democracy.
E) Algeria is the one European colony still under European control.
Q2) Polish citizens resisted Soviet rule after WWII for all of the following reasons except
A) historic memories of being under Russian rule before WWI.
B) Soviet invasion of eastern Poland in 1939
C) assisting Germans round up Jewish Poles in 1939.
D) strong Catholic traditions challenged atheistic communism.
E) massacring thousands of Polish officers during the war.
Q3) Was Gorbachev trying to reform communism or end it? Explain.
Q4) Warsaw Pact
Q5) Pol Pot
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Chapter 22: The Troubled Present
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Q1) Considering the problem with Islam and Muslim immigrants into Europe,discuss the modern mind-set,traditions,and history of both Western Europe and the Mid East that makes assimilation and acceptance so difficult.
Q2) Slobodan Milosevic
Q3) When Yeltsin's government referred to "shock therapy," it meant
A) bombarding left wingers who took over the "White House" office building.
B) a vigorous push to private enterprise.
C) condemnation of earlier practices of sending dissidents to mental hospitals.
D) making Russia acknowledge the cruelty that existed under the communist system.
E) the return of private companies to the state.
Q4) Osama bin Laden
Q5) Yugoslavia became the most troubled of former Eastern European communist countries because of all of the following EXCEPT
A) It was a multi-ethnic state created after World War One.
B) It became embroiled in a war with Czechoslovakia.
C) NATO forced its military occupation in the area.
D) Russia attempted to destroy any attempt at independence.
E) The area was a division of Muslims, Catholics, Jews, and Orthodox
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